Happy World Book Day!
Not that we really need one.
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And to talk about copyrights and how to best support authors.
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Westeros has a lot more bald dudes than you think.
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“To be, or not to be, that is the question—” One of the questions, at least. It wouldn’t be much of a trivia quiz if it was just one question.
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We’ve got an exclusive first look at Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On, which hits shelves in October 2015.
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Fans of Rowell will recognize Simon and his world as the focus of the beloved novels that Fangirl's protagonist, Cath, adores. In the book, she's widely known online for the popular fanfiction she writes with her sister about Simon and Baz. Carry On will give readers a much-desired taste of Simon's world.
Simon Snow just wants to relax and savor his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest, and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his roommate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savor anything.
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The truth has been under our noses all along.
They locked him in a cupboard for most of his life, treated him like a servant, and generally tormented him his entire childhood.
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In honor of the Bard’s 451st birthday.
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2. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
—Hamlet in Hamlet
3. "From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world."
—Berowne in Love's Labor's Lost
4. "The wheel is come full circle: I am here."
—Edmund in King Lear
5. "All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts."
—Jaques in As You Like It
6. "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
—Escalus in Measure for Measure
7. "I burn, I pine, I perish."
—Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew
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9. "This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
—Polonius in Hamlet
10. "Come, let's away to prison;
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news."
—Lear in King Lear
11. "They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol'n the scraps."
—Moth in Love's Labor's Lost
12. "I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety."
—Boy in Henry V
13. "For your brother and my sister no sooner
met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they
loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner
sighed, but they asked one another the reason; no
sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy."
—Rosalind in As You Like It
